GABRIEL PERERA: BIO
Founder and Managing Partner, Take Friday Off

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Gabriel Perera is the founder and managing partner of Take Friday Off, which develops supplements and skincare for brands, after two decades in natural health at Blackmores and TSI Group.

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Gabriel Perera is the founder and managing partner of Take Friday Off, which develops supplements and skincare for Australian and international brands, from the formula and the TGA listing to manufacturing. He spent two decades in natural health, in senior roles at Blackmores and TSI Group, after starting in law at DLA Piper and strategy at Accenture. He founded the practitioner brand Ora and the pet supplement brand Nectar of the Dogs, and holds a fellowship with NICM Health Research Institute.

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Gabriel Perera started in law at DLA Piper and strategy at Accenture, then moved into natural health and stayed. He was general manager of Phytomedicine and Nutrimedicine, then spent ten years as a senior executive at Blackmores, where he worked on the BioCeuticals acquisition, a 200-product pipeline across 11 Asian markets and the Kalbe Farma joint venture. As Chief Strategy Officer of TSI Group he worked across global raw materials, cGMP manufacturing and contract supply.

In 2020 he founded Take Friday Off, which takes wellness products from the first idea to a compliant product on the shelf: the formula, the evidence behind every claim, the TGA listing, the label and managed manufacturing. The team has run 190 projects since 2020.

He also founded Ora, a practitioner natural medicine brand, and Nectar of the Dogs, a pet supplement brand in which The Real Pet Food Company bought a majority stake in 2022. He is an Adjunct Fellow of NICM Health Research Institute and a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Website: https://takefridayoff.com/about
